The horror of Emilia, on discovering that the Moor had murdered her mistress, was scarcely greater than that of Miss Morbid ! She hardly, she said, believed her own senses. You might have knocked her down with a feather ! She did not know whether she... Hood's own; or, Laughter from year to year - Pagina 47door Thomas Hood - 1839Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1837 - 392 pagina’s
...different conclusion. She thought that whites who could eat sugar were capable of any atrocity. * * In fact, the mistress had arrived at the determination...of her own bank stock, from her escritoire into the right hand pocket of her protegee — she heard it chink as it dropped downwards —she was petrified... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pagina’s
...of any atrocity, and had not forgotten the stand which had been made by the " pale faces," in favor of the obnoxious article. The cook especially incurred...case. She saw the transfer of a portion of her own bank-stock, from her escritoire into the right-hand pocket of her protegee — she heard it chink as... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pagina’s
...was scarcely greater than that of Miss Morbid ! She hardly, she said, believed her own senses. You f might have knocked her down with a feather ! She did...upright upon her head ! There was no doubt in the ease. She saw the transfer of a portion of her own bank-stock, from her escritoire into the right-hand... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pagina’s
...of any atrocity, and had not forgotten the stand which had been made by the "pale faces," in favor of the obnoxious article. The cook especially incurred...case. She saw the transfer of a portion of her own bank-stock, from her escritoire into the right-hand pocket of her protegee — she heard it chink as... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pagina’s
...the ungrateful black was detected in the very act of levying what might be called her " Black Mail." might have knocked her down with a feather ! She did...case. She saw the transfer of a portion of her own bank-stock, from her escritoire into the right-hand pocket of her protegee — she heard it chink as... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 pagina’s
...the ungrateful black was detected in the very act of levying what might be called her " Black Mail." might have knocked her down with a feather! She did...case. She saw the transfer of a portion of her own bank-stock, from her escritoire into the right-hand pocket of her protegee—she heard it chink as... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1855 - 590 pagina’s
...Moor had murdered her mii-iress, was scarcely greater than that of Miss Morbid ! She hardly, she &aid, believed her own senses. You might have knocked her...her head ! There was no doubt in the case. She saw {he transfer of a portion of her own bank stock, from her escritoire into the right-hand pocket of... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1864 - 732 pagina’s
...her, roundly, that sho should marry me, and then I would shake her. If you were to scold her, till she did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels, she would come to reason.' ' Suppose you try that, Lady G lencora ?' ' I can't. It's she that always scolds... | |
| Benjamin Leopold Farjeon - 1885 - 284 pagina’s
...become of her ; and more than once in the first flush of her trouble, she had been heard to declare that she did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels. If the declaration were intended to bear a literal interpretation, it was on the face of it ridiculous,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1892 - 454 pagina’s
...her own doorstep, was that night captured and wrapped up in the war-cloud of Badalia's wrath, so that she did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels, and after being soundly bumped on every particular stair up to her room, was set down on Badalia's... | |
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